✦ ceramic lamps & pottery
Duke Doyle
Handmade ceramic lamps, vessels and tableware.
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Handmade ceramic lamps, vessels and tableware.
Handmade bases paired with found & vintage shades. No two combinations alike.
Using different hand building techniques, Duke has been exploring stacking forms with repeated geometric motifs.
Alongside the lamps, Duke makes wheel-thrown vessels, bowls, mugs, citrus reamers, teapots and functional ware built for daily use. Every piece is one of a kind.
Clay wedged to remove air, centred on the wheel or prepared for slab work. Every piece starts the same way.
Lamp bases thrown on the wheel or hand-built from slabs. Sculptural forms assembled, carved and textured by hand.
Bisque fired, then glazed and fired again to cone 6. The surface is where the real decisions happen — and the surprises.
Each lamp base drilled and wired by hand. Shades sourced — vintage, found, made — chosen to make the base sing.
Every surface on a finished lamp was cut by hand into leather-hard clay — in a narrow window, soft enough to cut cleanly, firm enough not to collapse.
This is the work that doesn't show in the finished piece. But it's the work that makes the finished piece.
Take home a one-of-a-kind handmade piece. If you're not seeing what you want in the shop, get in touch.
Dark stoneware with raw, organic edge. Perfect for anything from flaky salt (pictured) to a jewelry dish.
Want a lamp for a specific space? A teapot as a gift? Duke takes commissions — describe what you're after and we'll figure it out together.